Pothole allegedly causes fatal car crash in St James

A 33-year-old woman was killed early Friday morning in a motor vehicle crash reportedly caused by a pothole in St James.

Her name has not yet been released by the police.

According to a police report, the woman was a passenger in a Nissan motor car that was travelling north along the Brandon Hill main road about 1:15am when the driver lost control after the vehicle drove through a pothole in the vicinity of the Blossom Gardens Children’s Home.

The vehicle crashed into a concrete wall.

A total of 290 people have died on the nation's roads so far this year, 37 fewer than the comparative figure last year, according to police data.

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